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  • I've seen one with what looks like a chute but most of them haven't had an external hatch. I haven't paid that much attention to the ones I've seen other than a bit of curiosity about why they were designed like that.

    I'll have to take a photo next time and have a proper look at it.

  • My place is like that. 1900's terraced. Half-width cellar. We have a coal chute, but it's been concreted over externally.

  • Coal cellar is most likely

    concreted over externally.

    This happens a lot.

    Also bear in mind the area around the hatch tends, in my experience, to be block and beam construction therefore point loading = bad idea.

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